Sport climbing: medical considerations for this new Olympic discipline

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Affiliations

¹ CVPath Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Sports Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Sports Traumatology, Klinikum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
³ Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Klinikum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
⁴ Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, North York General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Klinikum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
⁶ Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Editorial

C Lutter et al. Br J Sports Med. 2017 Jan.

. 2017 Jan;51(1):2-3.

doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096871. Epub 2016 Nov 7.

C Lutter^{1

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3}, Y El-Sheikh⁴, I Schöffl⁵, V Schöffl^{2

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6}

¹ CVPath Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Sports Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Sports Traumatology, Klinikum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
³ Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Klinikum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
⁴ Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, North York General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Klinikum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
⁶ Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

No abstract available

Keywords: Hand; Injuries; Olympics; Rock climbing; Sport climbing.

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